ZSH history completion menu

autocomplete, shell, zsh

Solution

there is something in zsh called `history-beginning-search-menu`. if you put:

autoload -Uz history-beginning-search-menu
zle -N history-beginning-search-menu
bindkey '^X^X' history-beginning-search-menu

in your .zshrc file. then for example:

kent$  sudo systemctl[here I type C-X twice]
Enter digits:
01 sudo systemctl acpid.service                      11 sudo systemctl enable netfs
02 sudo systemctl enable acpid                       12 sudo systemctl enable networkmanager
03 sudo systemctl enable alsa                        13 sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
04 sudo systemctl enable alsa-restore                14 sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online
05 sudo systemctl enable alsa-store                  15 sudo systemctl enable ntpd
06 sudo systemctl enable cronie                      16 sudo systemctl enable sshd
07 sudo systemctl enable cups                        17 sudo systemctl enable syslog-ng
08 sudo systemctl enable dbus                        18 sudo systemctl enable tpfand
09 sudo systemctl enable gdm                         19 sudo systemctl reload gdm.service
10 sudo systemctl enable hal                         20 sudo systemctl restart gdm.service

then you need to give the index number to fire the command in history.

of course there could be some optimization for that. but I think this gets you start.

hope it helps.

Problem

Zsh autocomplete is amazing, but I cannot configure one thing properly: I want zsh to offer me a list of commands from history. I know that I can search the history with Ctrl+R, but I want something a bit different. When I type: shelajev@elephant ~ » kill 1TAB 1642 shelajev gnome-keyring-d 1718 shelajev gnome-session 1807 shelajev ssh-agent 1810 shelajev dbus-launch 1811 shelajev dbus-daemon 1822 shelajev gnome-settings- 1884 shelajev gvfsd 1891 shelajev gvfs-fuse-daemo Zsh offers me a list of processes to kill. I want to have something like this: shelajev@elephant ~ » kill Ctrl+X Ctrl+X kill -9 12093 kill -15 4123 where those items in the list are taken from my history. There exists a ZLE hist-complete thing, but I don't know how to properly configure it. I have the following in my `.zshrc`: ``` zle -C hist-complete complete-word _generic zstyle ':completion:hist-complete:*' completer _history bindkey "^X^X" hist-complete ``` But this only completes individual words, which doesn't give me much. Is there a way to combine history search for lines in the history and showing a listing of that?

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